Found 2 items, similar to gan.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: gan gan See gin [also: ganning, ganned] gin n 1: strong liquor flavored with juniper berries 2: a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose [syn: snare, noose] 3: a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers [syn: cotton gin] 4: a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points [syn: gin rummy , knock rummy] [also: ginning, ginned, gan] gin v 1: separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin 2: trap with a snare; “gin game” [also: ginning, ginned, gan]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Gan Gan \Gan\, imp. of Gin. [See Gin, v.] Began; commenced. [1913 Webster] Note: Gan was formerly used with the infinitive to form compound imperfects, as did is now employed. Gan regularly denotes the singular; the plural is usually denoted by gunne or gonne. [1913 Webster] This man gan fall (i.e., fell) in great suspicion. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] The little coines to their play gunne hie (i. e., hied). --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Note: Later writers use gan both for singular and plural. [1913 Webster] Yet at her speech their rages gan relent. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Gin \Gin\ (g[i^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gan (g[a^]n), Gon (g[o^]n), or Gun (g[u^]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Ginning.] [OE. ginnen, AS. ginnan (in comp.), prob. orig., to open, cut open, cf. OHG. inginnan to begin, open, cut open, and prob. akin to AS. g[=i]nan to yawn, and E. yawn. [root]31. See Yawn, v. i., and cf. Begin.] To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan. [Obs. or Archaic] “He gan to pray.” --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]